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Source: Associated Press
The Latest: Minnesotan charged with attacks over mask demand
By The Associated Press
April 17, 2021
HUTCHINSON, Minn. Prosecutors have charged a Minnesota man with felony assault and allege that he attacked a home improvement store employee and a police officer after the store worker told him to wear a mask.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the incident began Wednesday afternoon when a cashier at a Menards in Hutchinson told 61-year-old Luke Oeltjenbruns that he couldnt check out unless he put on a mask, according to a criminal complaint. Oeltjenbruns tried to leave with his merchandise, prompting the cashier to grab his cart.
The complaint alleges that Oeltjenbruns hit the cashier with a piece of lumber. Police later found Oeltjenbruns sitting in his pickup truck in another stores parking lot.
After a slow-speed chase, officers surrounded his truck with their squad cars, but he refused to get out. Officer Steven Sickmann got up on the trucks running board and reached through the window. The complaint says Oeltjenbruns closed the window on the officers arm, trapping him, and drove off, crashing into squad cars.
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